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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 3, how does Leaphorn think of the Zuni village?
(a) Bowl-shaped.
(b) Beehive.
(c) Ancient.
(d) Enemy.

2. What clan does the Little Fire God belong to?
(a) Eagle Clan.
(b) Antelope Clan.
(c) Wolf Clan.
(d) Badger Clan.

3. What did Susanne make George take from her the last time she saw him?
(a) Water.
(b) A charm to protect him.
(c) Her old blue quilted jacket.
(d) Some venison.

4. Who is John O' Malley?
(a) Leaphorn's superior in the Navajo Tribe.
(b) A member of the Arizona State Bureau of Investigation.
(c) An officer of the Highway Patrol.
(d) FBI agent.

5. In Chapter 2, what road does Leaphorn take from Shiprock to Zuni?
(a) S.H. 52.
(b) N.M. 53.
(c) The name of the road isn't mentioned.
(d) Interstate 40.

6. Whom does Leaphorn leave Cecil with after the death of Shorty Bowlegs?
(a) The Cata family.
(b) Navajo Social Services.
(c) Jason's Fleece.
(d) A Franciscan brother at St. Anthony's.

7. Leaphorn estimates Isaacs' age as what?
(a) Late twenties.
(b) Mid twenties.
(c) Early thirties.
(d) Early twenties.

8. In Chapter 5, Leaphorn talks to Young Husband, a neighbor to the commune. Where has Young Husband spent 12 months?
(a) Albuquerque.
(b) New York.
(c) Vietnam.
(d) California.

9. How many people originally settled the commune?
(a) Thirty-five.
(b) Sixteen.
(c) Seven.
(d) Twenty-one.

10. Who helps Leaphorn change his flat tire?
(a) Father Ingles.
(b) Shorty Bowlegs.
(c) Naranjo.
(d) Cecil Bowlegs.

11. In Chapter 9, to what culture does the fetish most likely belong?
(a) Navajo.
(b) Hopi.
(c) Zuni.
(d) Shoshone.

12. According to Cecil, who stole something from the anthropologists at the dig site?
(a) The hippies at the commune.
(b) A kachina.
(c) George Bowlegs.
(d) Ernesto Cata.

13. In Chapter 3, who says that George ran away from the kachina?
(a) Joe Leaphorn.
(b) Ed Pasquaanti.
(c) Shorty Bowlegs.
(d) Cecil Bowlegs.

14. In Chapter 1, the Little Fire God spies a light on in a camper below him. He guesses that Ted Isaacs is doing what?
(a) Digging at the anthropological site.
(b) Cleaning the camper.
(c) Reading.
(d) Cooking supper.

15. What is Jason's Fleece, as used in Dance Hall of the Dead?
(a) A legend.
(b) A store on the reservation.
(c) An anthropological discovery.
(d) A place where the hippies live.

Short Answer Questions

1. By a white man's standards, what is Shorty Bowlegs net worth?

2. Who refers to Leaphorn as Navajo fuzz?

3. What is taboo in the eight days leading to Shalako?

4. In Chapter 2, Leaphorn is given an assignment. What is it?

5. In Chapter 6, Leaphorn comes up with another explanation for the blood found where Ernesto Cata was last found?

(see the answer keys)

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